THERE’S been plenty of attention in the past few weeks on the lamb market in this column, so it’s time we took a look at the cattle side.

Cattle prices continue to struggle overall, and the Eastern Young Cattle Indicator is now more than 100c/kg lower than it was at this time last year.

Early this week the EYCI was on 452.75c/kg, while The Land’s cow indicator (calculated by the National Livestock Reporting Service) was on 171c/kg.

NAB Agribusiness economist, Phin Ziebell, said poor feed and water availability continues to dent restocker interest, and while demand for finished cattle has been fairly healthy this year, even this looks to be under some pressure.

Recognising a top team’s result

The team picked up the top property sales for the financial year award and was recognised as the top livestock office.

Ray White Rural Emms Mooney is now home to the top performing individual agent Sam D’Arcy. Only two years ago Mr D’Arcy was starting his career in sales and was then announced as the Rookie of the Year.

Mr D’Arcy colleague Harry Larnach was credited as the top Ray White livestock assessor in the company by AuctionsPlus.